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Phoenix Coffee debuts new Ohio City Coffee Bar location

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Phoenix Coffee's new Ohio City Coffee Bar has two unique offerings: a hops-infused Imperial Iced Tea (left) and a cold-brewed Nitro Toddy coffee served from a stout faucet.
(Photo by Peter Chakerian, Special to Cleveland.com)

"Cleveland's Artisan Roaster" and hyper-local coffee chain's latest location, the Phoenix Ohio City Coffee Bar, debuts today at 3000 Bridge Avenue—nestled into the former site of the West Side Community House.

The building, which is in the midst of being renovated into 21 apartments, features Phoenix's most audacious space to date: a chic, 1,000-square-foot café with white quartz counter tops and an urban sipping patio.

Largely surrounded by residential property, this Phoenix is quite unique. But there's more new happening inside the space, beyond the new digs themselves.

Apart from pourovers and single-origin espressos, two new "on draught" caffeinated items grace the menu: a hops-infused, force-carbonated Imperial Iced Tea, and a cold-brew coffee Nitro Toddy, poured through a stout faucet.

"[They are] really interesting items to have on-tap," Wilson-Jones told Cleveland.com, adding that because of the beer-brewing relationship to these items, they are likely to appeal to beer fanatics and coffee connoisseurs alike.

"The Imperial is basically a hops-infused tea that tastes like a daytime beer! And the Toddy is foamy and delicious, with those stout properties you'd find in that smooth, dark beer. They are both really unique beverages."

Naturally, the café's main focus is on artisan coffee—namely Ethiopian, Guatemalan and, at the moment, "a Cameroon coffee... that has such incredible dryness, it's fascinating," Wilson-Jones said.

A hearty selection of teas, a lightly-perfumed Alma's Lavender Lemonade, and a select variety of pastries from Bonbon Café round out the current menu.

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